In 1979, Marv Gaye was spiralg. He thought a fight between Sugar Ray Leonard and a fast-risg boxer named Andy Price uld save him
Contents:
- HOW A 1979 BOXG MATCH BEME THE FIGHT OF MARV GAYE’S LIFE
- MARV GAYE’S 30 TOP SONGS ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100
HOW A 1979 BOXG MATCH BEME THE FIGHT OF MARV GAYE’S LIFE
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And Price’s rner, amid the televisn meras and cigar smoke, sat Price’s manager, Marv Gaye, feelg like his whole life was on the le. Gaye often spoke boxg metaphors, and 1979 — the wake of a stly divorce om his first wife, tranged om his send, gripped by e addictn, and badly bt to the IRS — the image of the pummeled prizefighter beme particularly potent to him. Gaye’s relatnship to boxg wasn’t merely metaphoril.
Highly petive and seemgly lnal about his abili — never md that the whole thg was meant to be a lark — Gaye was tent on actually boxg Ali. In preparatn for the Ali “fight, ” Gaye traed at the Hoover Street Gym South Central Los Angel.
MARV GAYE’S 30 TOP SONGS ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100
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But if his own limatns as a boxer were now clear, Gaye had at least found a way to stay the rg, or near : He’d bee the Hawk’s manager. Gaye’s partnership wh Price led to three victori, before Gaye sred Price that Vegas tle shot agast Leonard, boxg’s baby-face sensatn.
It was the biggt fight of Price’s reer, and jt as huge a moment for Gaye.
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A victory, Gaye believed, would turn his life around.